Ming-Wu Ding and co-workers from the Central China Normal University have published in Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry on a multi-component coupling approach followed by a Staudinger/Aza-Wittig reaction.

Leonid Voskressensky and co-workers from the Russian People’s Friendship University have published in Organic Letters on a multicomponent coupling reaction between an isocyanide methyl ester, ammonium chloride, sodium azide and a ketone to form benzodiazapine structures.

Tomas Torroba and co-workers from the Universidad de Burgos have published on an Ugi reaction followed by a Staudinger-Aza-Wittig cyclization. The key was that the carboxylic acid partner in the Ugi reaction was tethered by an azide group.

Romano Orru and co-workers at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam have published in ACIEE on a diastereoselective Ugi reaction after an enzyme catalyzed desymmetrization of a meso compound using monoamine oxidase N (MAO-N).